Riot giver dig mulighed for at betale for at forvandle dine Valorant-våben til Counter-Strike-våben

Valorant’s next cosmetic bundle is looking eerily familiar. The Black Market pack, arriving on April 12, is an unsubtle homage to Counter-Strike conveniently timed with Valve’s recent announcement of Counter-Strike 2.

Interessant nok Sort marked bundt (åbner i ny fane) is the exact opposite of Valorant’s typical style of loud, impossible-looking magical skins. The five included skins transform default Valorant guns into a close approximation of their Counter-Strike equivalents. For example:

• Vandalen bliver til en AK-47
• Bulldog bliver en FAMAS
• Marskallen bliver spejder (disse to lignede allerede ret ens)
• Classic bliver til en Glock-18
• Kniven bliver til en sommerfuglekniv

In case you’re still unsure if the similarities are a coincidence, the Black Market bundle even references Counter-Strike’s terrorist/counter-terrorist format by changing each skin’s appearance when you’re attacking or defending. If the reference holds up, I assume you’ll only see that wood-grain Vandal on attack.

Reaktioner på bundtet er passende blandede. Nogle spillere nyder de frække Counter-Strike makeovers, mens andre tager dette som et tegn på, at Riot er skræmt af buzz omkring Counter-Strike 2 (åbner i ny fane). Personally I think these skins, while simple, are a huge improvement over Valorant’s dreadfully boring all-black default skins. It’s a shame that they’ll probably be wildly overpriced: official pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but judging by the way Valorant tends to price bundles, expect to pay anywhere from $60-$80 for all five skins (or $16-$23 per skin).

“I mean guess it’s fine, but I can’t justify paying money for generic skins for weapons I’ve used in every FPS shooter for the last 20 years,” wrote Redditor xStickyBudz (åbner i ny fane).

Another common reaction is disappointment that the attack/defense skin swapping feature will be exclusive to this bundle. Valorant players have been asking for a similar feature that works for any skin for years, but according to Riot, it hasn’t materialized because of the potential strains on hardware requirements.

“More skins and more memory = more load times,” wrote associate art director Sean Marino in a svar (åbner i ny fane) on Reddit. “We want players to get in the game quickly and not have a bunch of things going on in the background preventing you from doing that—more memory means bigger hardware memory requirement.”

Fair enough, but if I were a Valorant player I don’t think I’d be satisfied. Would players really mind slightly longer loading times if it means more freedom to show off the skins they’ve paid hundreds or thousands of dollars on?

Riot fortsætter sin forpligtelse til at holde Valorant lav-spec nok til at køre på hvad som helst, men det kommer med ofre.

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